The Frame: Early voting begins around the country

Florida kicked off early voting on Monday, with record crowds heading to the polls and voters waiting hours to cast their ballots. Early voting also began in Colorado on Monday. Here in California, in Orange County, eager voters pulled their vehicles into the county registrar's parking lot on Monday and cast ballots at an electronic drive-through poll station.

Nationwide, about a third of the electorate is expected to vote early this year. That would be up from 22 percent in 2004 and 16 percent in 2000. Voters in every state can now cast ballots through early voting or absentee voting programs. (13 images)

--associated press

Dozens of people filled the voting booths at the Wellington Webb building in downtown Denver, Colo. as early voting began on Monday. Rocky Mountain News / Javier Manzano

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Disabled vet Jeffrey Carlton and his dog Zach take advantage of drive thru voting outside the Orange County Registrar of Voters office in Santa Ana on Monday. Voters in every state can now cast ballots for the presidential election through early voting or absentee voting programs. AP / Mark Avery

Poll workers Nancy Sokolowski and Ray Sokolowski set up voting booths at the early voting site inside the Collier County Supervisor of Elections Office on Monday in Naples, Fla. Naples Daily News / Jennifer Whitney

A woman drops off her ballots at a drop box outside the Denver Elections Commission an election's official assists her on Monday Denver, Colo. Rocky Mountain News / Javier Manzano

James and Shirley Walker check their sample ballot as they wait in line Monday at the Plantation, Fla. library to cast their early ballot. AP / J Pat Carter

Early voters stand in line Monday to cast their early ballots in the Florida election. Earlier in the day, people had waited up to four hours after mechanical problems caused delays in some voting machines. AP / J Pat Carter

Sadie Cedrone, right, tries to keep cool while waiting over half an hour to cast her ballot during early voting, on Monday in Bonita Springs, Fla. Naples Daily News / Michel Fortier

Christina Foreman and her baby, Isaiah, stand in the shade while she waits to vote early at a Plantation, Fla. library on Monday. People stood in line for almost four hours earlier in the day after voting machines failed. AP / J. Pat Carter

Voters line up beside empty voting booths inside the Acres Homes Mulit-Service Center to cast their votes on the first day of early voting Monday in Houston. Due to a glitch in the electronic voting system, voters waited in long lines to be checked in manually. Many voters left the polling place because of the problem. The Houston Chronicle / Brett Coomer

Ebony Stevens holds her nephew Xuzeel Goodrich, at the Sunrise Center polling station in El Paso, Texas on Monday. Stevens was casting her vote during the first day of early voting in the state. El Paso Times / Victor Calzada

Voters wait in line at a Little Rock, Ark., branch library serving as an early voting location on Monday, the first day of early voting in the state. AP / Danny Johnston

Voters arrive during the first day of early voting at a Travis County mega voting site on Monday in Austin, Texas. Apart from the presidential race, voters will decide on a U.S. Senate race that features Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Democratic challenger, State Rep. Rick Noriega. AP / Harry Cabluck

Residents stand in line to on the first day of early voting at the Lauderhill Mall on Monday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Thousands of voters stood in line, some for hours, as Florida kicked-off the state's early voting polls. Zach Boyden-Holmes / Getty Images

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